The request concerns the questioning of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as a suspect in the massacre on the Maidan in February 2014. This was announced today by the head of the Department of Special Investigations of the GPU, Sergei Gorbatyuk.

According to him, the request was forwarded to the competent authorities of the Russian Federation to conduct investigative actions with Yanukovych, including handing over the suspicion, as well as his interrogation.

Recall, on March 11 Gorbatyuk said that their Department intends to send a petition to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation about questioning former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Russian territory as a suspect in two criminal proceedings - opposing protest actions and creating a criminal grouping.

As reported URA-Inform, November 28, 2016, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in the Svyatoshinsky district court of Kiev announced a message about suspicion in video mode to former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych of high treason, aiding the representatives of the Russian authorities in deliberate actions committed with the aim of committing changes to the borders of the territory State borders of Ukraine and the conduct of an aggressive war.